This Sunday we celebrate The Lord’s Supper at the morning service at 11am. We have a guest preacher with us, Derek Lamont from St Columba’s in Edinburgh. Derek is a very accomplished speaker and well worth hearing. He will be speaking on Daniel 6…the title of his sermon being ‘The Lion King’
In the evening(6pm) Derek will continue his theme on Daniel and will preach from Daniel 10 – ‘The King’s Speech’
Sunday morning meeting takes place at 11am
Sermon passage John 1:40
‘Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard what John had said and who had followed Jesus….’
This is the last in the ‘Leadership’ series which David Meredith, our pastor has been preaching over these last few weeks.
Why not come along and worship with God’s people on Sunday. The saying goes, “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.” As Smithton is a fairly large church, it can be a challenge meeting and getting to know others — to feel like you’re truly part of the church community. But don’t let that put you off. Come along, make yourself known to us, or if you prefer, just slip in and out as you wish. The service is finished in just over the hour. We have a crèche and Sunday school if required.
In the evening (service at 6pm) David will be preaching from Joshua 20….’God’s mercy: wise and wide’
Sunday 24 May is Pentecost Sunday. We will be having a joint service in the evening with all the evangelical churches in our area. The new minister of the The Barn Church of Scotland will be preaching and the other ministers will be taking part. The Smithton band will be leading the worship. Why not come along and worship with us all on Sunday evening at 6pm.
In the morning, David our pastor will be continuing his mini series on leadership. This Sunday he will be preaching about ‘Peter, the Broken Leader.’ We also understand that at the morning service Dr Flip Buys from South Africa will be with us. He is the Director of the World Reformed Fellowship – a worldwide network that the Free Church has just joined. Visit the website at www.wrf.org
We look forward to another Sunday worship here at Smithton. Leadership is the focus of our attention as David goes through various biblical characters on this subject. Tomorrow will be the second of a 5 part series……’Paul, the humble leader’ is the title. We give a special welcome to Peter Turnbull who will be our guest preacher in the evening. Peter will be taking up an appointment as lay pastor of Burghead Free Church in July.
Over the weekend David Meredith began a new 4-part mini series on Biblical Leadership & continued with our Joshua series. Catch up with Sunday’s services here: Jesus: The Paradoxical Leader & Whatever My Lot
This week we’ve got Multiply, Fun Time Toddlers, The Lunch Club & Community Groups and so much more to get involved with. Contact anyone at the church for more information.
Leadership! There are lots of different styles. Jesus is the greatest model of leadership. Come along, bring a friend and lets all learn together. At night we return to the challenging life story of Joshua. What’s your lot? Come and and find out more.
On Wednesday instead of the prayer meeting we hope to have our ACM. These events are not normally crowd pullers….however I understand it might be worth coming along to this year. As usual we hope to have reports from all the clubs and other activities the church run. This year we hope to have it in the form of a video presentation which is to be quite light hearted and will be good fun. Charlie Anderson, our treasurer will also give the church financial report. There is a hint that he may be doing his report in a different way as well! It sounds as if the evening could be well worth coming along to….despite the fact it is the ACM!
We look forward to to meeting for worship this coming Sunday. As David our pastor is still away on holiday we look forward to having John Nicholls, our associate pastor to lead the services both in the morning (11am) and evening (6pm). He will be preaching in the morning from Proverbs 2:7,8 – the sermon title ‘Life Journey’. In the evening he will be opening up the passage in Acts 11:23
We were blessed to have Aonghas Iain Macdonald with us over the weekend, preaching from Luke 10 & 11 in the morning and evening. If you missed it, catch up with the sermons here.
With it still being the school holidays there is less going on, but here are some things to note and get involved with:
There are plenty of things to get involved with, or to help with. If you want to serve or be a part of some of our church activities in any way then contact any of the ministry staff to ask them how you can help or join in.
This Sunday we expect to have our good friend Rev Aonghas Iain MacDonald back with us. Aonghas has preached many times over the last couple of years. On Sunday morning he will be preaching on the well known story of Martha and Mary which is found in Luke 10:38-42 – the sermon title being ‘The vital necessity.’ In the evening he will be preaching on Luke 11: 1-13.
David and Nina will be away in Italy for a well earned break. The congregation decided to gift him a holiday to Rome and Venice in appreciation of 30 years in the ministry – all at Smithton.